A Level AQA Philosophy- Epistemology Review Questions and 100% Correct Answers
A posteriori Knowledge of propositions that can only be known to be true or false through sense experience. A priori Knowledge of propositions that do not require (sense) experience to be known to be true or false. Propositional Knowledge Knowledge of facts. Belief Assenting to a proposition or agreeing that it is true. Philosophical Scepticism We should doubt that our beliefs are justified and that we have knowledge. Normal Incredulity Demanding strong reasons or evidence for a claim before believing it. Justification Possessing good reasons for a belief. Infallibilism To be knowledge, a belief must be certain. If we can doubt a belief, then it is not certain, and so it is not knowledge. Indubitable Impossible to doubt. Fallibilism The principle that propositions concerning empirical knowledge can be accepted even though they cannot be proved with certainty.
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